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Well, they weren't really standards by design either, people just reverse engineered their protocols. One could still do that, it's just that... nobody does any
by malermeister 3y ago
Well, they weren't really standards by design either, people just reverse engineered their protocols. One could still do that, it's just that... nobody does anymore?
- koito17 3y agoThe countless matrix bridges[1] to Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, etc. that are actively maintained, together with dozens of Pidgin plugins[2] serving similar purposes suggests otherwise. Granted, I don't expect Pidgin plugins to be well maintained compared to the Matrix appservice bridges. But still, there is at least one protocol that bridges to almost everything, and that's Matrix. For several years I used Matrix as little more than a glorified IRC and Slack client. [1] https://matrix.org/ecosystem/bridges/ https://matrix.org/ecosystem/bridges/ [2] https://pidgin.im/plugins/?type=Protocol https://pidgin.im/plugins/?type=Protocol
- LoganDark 3y agoOh no, people have tried to reverse-engineer apps like Signal or Discord. The problem is that the company starts aggressively banning every user of the reverse-engineered clients, as well as mounting legal attacks on their authors.